Morgan Stanley has begun using the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation's new tokenization infrastructure to tokenize real-world assets, joining a group of financial institutions that accessed the service after its launch last week.
Many of the biggest names in the oil and gas industry have converged on Abu Dhabi this week to attend the emirate’s flagship annual energy conference, ADIPEC, with energy security a priority as the industry grapples with ongoing supply disruptions amid heightened geopolitical tensions.
Repeated GitHub outages pushed OpenAI toward an in-house code platform as its Microsoft partnership loosens.
OpenAI hires former Army Secretary Dan Driscoll for national security role. OpenAI has hired former U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll as the company’s senior counselor for national security modernization.
A post on X says OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer, while the company's public channels and filings show no record of the transaction.
Patel, 24, is now an AI automation analyst, tasked with developing further internal agents to provide specific information to individual teams, while also identifying which manual or repetitive tasks across the company could be done by AI.
Democrats' sweeping midterms victory marked a major rejection of Elon Musk and the artificial-intelligence industry, as a broad backlash against U.S. President Donald Trump and his tech allies put their political influence — and the debt-fueled data center buildout — under sharper scrutiny.
Yes, but it comes with a serious catch. That turns a chip capable of around 65 tokens per second on a 120 billion parameter model into one struggling to break 14 tokens per second, for reasons tied to power management firmware that Linux currently can’t read.
Values enter because whether Hacker News reject or accept hypotheses is contingent on how Hacker News weigh consequences. Even in abstract realms like math, there are often simply too many possible truths for values not to be brought to bear in sifting through them.
Goodman Group and Digital Realty have offered AU$715 million (US$499.7m) for a 9.9 percent stake in beleaguered Australian data center operator NextDC.
JLL has acquired data center consultancy VIPA Digital in a move to bolster its data center data service capabilities.
Reed Jobs isn’t trying to cure cancer.
The only slightly unintuitive thing is that when you use the buttons to click down a page, the higher button moves you down the page while the lower button moves you back up. A Kindle page turner is a nice accessibility accessory for folks who might not be able to comfortably hold up their Kindle and tap the pages…
Satellite communications firm Speedcast has sold its ground station infrastructure to investment firm EQT.
Fletcher Williams saw six movies at AMC theaters last month.
Google shut down a massive botnet operation involving an OEM and ODM manufacturer. According to the company blog, Videostrong Technology Co., which was a certified Android TV partner, purposefully installed a backdoor into 1.3 million set-top boxes and then sold access to criminal affiliates.
Morgan Stanley has begun using the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation's new tokenization infrastructure to tokenize real-world assets, joining a group of financial institutions that accessed the service after its launch last week.
It was a “stunning rebuke” to President Trump. The words “stunning rebuke”—and variations on that theme—were the choice of dozens of front pages reporting on the midterm election results today.
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Jack Dorsey-led fintech firm Block Inc. Block, Inc. XYZ -1.40% saw its shares jump 6.2% in after-hours trading on Tuesday after reporting stronger third-quarter earnings and raising its full-year profit outlook.
Its important to remember: these are unrealized gains and could drop at any moment as 0xA2 waits for Alaska's final verdict. 0xA2 also profited $106,115 by predicting that the Democrats would win the Texas Senate —profits that have been realized.
Democrats won control of Congress in the 2026 US midterms.
Driving the news: Jeffries is on track to enjoy a majority of dozens of votes, with the New York Times projecting Democrats to win as many as 256 seats to Republicans' 178. Zoom in: Progressives — particularly "The Bloc," a group made up of hard-charging leftists like Darializa Avila Chevalier and Adam Hamawy — had…
Texas woke up red on Tuesday and went to bed blue.
Republicans tried to save their House majority with a bold wave of mid-cycle redistricting.
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Bitcoin rebounded above $78,000 on Wednesday after Democrats won both chambers of Congress, despite three consecutive trading sessions of US spot ETF withdrawals.
Bitwise’s André Dragosch attributed Bitcoin ETF outflows to weaker market sentiment, saying institutions have largely maintained their exposure.
World Liberty filed a defamation lawsuit against Sun in May, alleging false statements and violations of token-sale terms. The legal back-and-forth followed a January 2025 agreement by an Abu Dhabi-backed investment vehicle to purchase a 49% stake in World Liberty for $500 million.
Democratic Party leader Kim Min-seok said at a party supreme council meeting at the National Assembly that the decision followed consultations through the Strategy and Finance Committee, government-party talks, and meetings with crypto asset businesses, local news outlet News1 reported on Wednesday.
A Canadian judge has ordered that a laptop containing a Bitcoin wallet be returned to the family of William Sandeson, who is serving a life sentence for the 2015 murder of fellow university student Taylor Samson during a drugs deal, Global News reported.
CrowdStrike has introduced an AI agent kill switch designed to stop unauthorized activity inside corporate networks, alongside plans to acquire AI observability startup Fiddler as businesses give increasingly autonomous software access to their systems.
Cities generate enormous amounts of data from cameras, sensors and operational systems, but turning it into useful action — for planning, maintenance and public services — remains a challenge.
OpenAI wants its massive AI data centers to help keep the lights on when electricity grids come under pressure.
US export controls were built to keep China away from the most advanced AI hardware. According to a report from Tom’s Hardware, high-bandwidth memory (HBM) made by Samsung Electronics and SK hynix is being repackaged alongside low-end server processors and shipped toward China.
A new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to create incentives for powerful AI models that make following the rules the most rational choice.
Apple has warned of an “unprecedented” rise in memory chip prices, as it battles with datacentres to lay its hands on supplies.
To test whether automated safety techniques could scale (which would allow us to turn more compute into progressively more safety confidence), Alignment Forum set up a deliberately one-sided game as a first test. Given enough attempts, it succeeded, mostly by hiding the behavior in fiction and roleplay.
The contract holds if running the usage path on the fixture still produces the baselines. A contract covers an architecture and a usage path, not a single checkpoint: compatible checkpoints can share a fixture, while each keeps its own expected results.
Build the images and start the stack:. This builds the backend ( auto_ontology ) and frontend ( auto-ontology-frontend ) images, brings up Postgres and pgAdmin, runs the one-shot frontend-migrate job to sync the database schema, and starts the app (backend, ingestion service, and frontend).
Elon Musk is looking to shake up America's wireless industry, potentially bringing the first major new competitive threat in years to a business dominated by three companies.Why it matters: The cellular industry has seen enormous technological change, but relatively little disruption to its competitive structure.
The term “hypersonic” may have a sci-fi ring to it, but the technology is real, and there are many reasons to pay attention. The first thing to know about hypersonic missiles is that they’re air-rippingly fast.
It never is any different to me, and the battery's always great for 10 days. Computer model: a Dell It's been in its office probably as long as I've been at NBC.
Businesses in the UK's food supply chain have been impacted by the cyber-attack which hit supermarket fridges and freezers across Europe on Monday.
Apple has said it does not know when it will get more of its new foldable iPhones back in stock as the company heads towards the key Christmas trading period.
John Ternus' first earnings report as Apple CEO was going fine until it was time to issue a forecast for the company's gross margin, one of the key metrics followed by investors.
TD Cowen’s Jaret Seiberg says a Democratic sweep of Congress would kill the CLARITY Act for two years, hand Elizabeth Warren the Banking Committee and let Democrats block Trump’s picks for the SEC and CFTC.
A sustained recovery above $77,000 could improve short-term sentiment, while continued selling pressure may encourage traders to examine lower support levels. However, price movements alone cannot confirm whether the market has reached a bottom.
John Ternus, Apple’s new CEO, spent his first two months in the role celebrating a batch of new products, particularly the release of the foldable iPhone Duo.
House and gubernatorial races have shifted from a heavy focus on Trump during the primaries to a much greater emphasis on the economy in the general election.Both parties have also leaned much more heavily into health care, with a noticeable increase among House Republicans.By the numbers: The drop-off is steepest…
California is accepting $1.42 billion in broadband grant funding from the Trump administration, but the state is not accepting the Trump administration’s demand that it stop enforcing a net neutrality law and other telecom regulations.
Democrats are poised to romp in today's election — easily winning the House and, according to most forecasts, flipping the Senate too.
Voters are about to decide whether public backlash against the health care industry translates into meaningful policy shifts.
Though analysts have been wrong before, many observers expect the Democrats to claw back some political power in this week’s midterm elections. Despite that, Wall Street is expecting President Trump to double down on some of his less popular policies, following the vote.
Analyst Mike Colonnese points to $20.9 billion in unrealized Bitcoin gains and $5 billion in cash reserves as pillars of the bull case.
BNB Chain leads a market where on-chain equity trading has grown from a rounding error to over 4% of decentralized exchange activity.
Chainlink says Aave's institutional lending platform Horizon is using its new weekend pricing service, giving tokenized stock collateral a reference that keeps moving while traditional exchanges are closed.
Tether froze more than $1.5 billion in stolen USDT within 30 minutes of Binance's Oct. 29 hack, highlighting stablecoins' ability to disrupt cryptocurrency theft.
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the stablecoin giant now holds around 150,000 Bitcoin, worth roughly $11.5 billion at current prices, a figure that exceeds what the company’s own reserve disclosures imply by some 50,000 coins.
Anthropic launched Fable 5 on June 9, pulled it offline for 18 days under U.S. export controls, which are government limits on who may use a technology, and released Fable 5.1 on September 1. The chatter began on October 1, when users posted screenshots of Claude still labeled Fable 5.1 beside outputs they said looked…
In 2001, a decade after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision.
When a developer gives an AI agent a coding task, the agent does more than answer once. It plans, generates code, runs tests, and repeats the process to correct errors.
He said it at an oil and gas conference, flanked by an announcement with a national oil company. The remarks came at the ADIPEC energy conference in Abu Dhabi on November 2, 2026.
Stronger demand and better monetization at the big cloud providers pushed Citi to lift its estimates, with the biggest bump landing in 2028.
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Chinese space officials confirmed this weekend that the Asian nation plans to land its astronauts on the Moon within three years.
Fifty companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft and JPMorgan, have blocked OKX and ICE from tokenizing their shares under the SEC’s new Innovation Exemption.
Fifty companies have now objected to having their shares tokenized through OKX and ICE’s proposed tokenized stock trading platform, with Nike, Costco, Micron, Reddit and Nvidia among the latest additions.
President Trump said Monday he'd move to protect Elon Musk if Democrats investigate the SpaceX and Tesla CEO after the midterm elections.
John Ternus says Apple is seeing ‘unprecedented’ memory pricing.
While Google Translate has served me well, it can fall short of expectations. In my experience, another area where Google Translate stumbles is restaurant menus.
UK telecoms giant Virgin Media O2 is preparing to axe thousands of jobs as it works to slash its £22 billion ($29.55bn) debt pile.
Mesaroš had toyed with using the GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi, but settled on the serial device instead, since everything worked "out of the box." "It's kind of cheating," he admitted, "but it's also kind of good."
Stores in Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg, and Estonia have had their cooling systems tampered with.
Faire, the online wholesale market, is eyeing a potential IPO in the next 12 months, after surviving the perils that come from pressure on Bay Area tech darlings to grow, grow, grow.
But contrary to popular opinion that the property market is facing a supply problem, Kelly believes the ghoul in the data lies in demand. With an average household of about 2.5 people, he writes, that “implies a demographic need for 320,000 new housing units per year,” compared with roughly 1 million per year in the…
Data scientist Thomas Miller’s site handicapping outcomes for the U.S. Senate races now shows overwhelming odds that the Democrats will take control, numbers much more commanding than even the polls and prediction markets are showing.
Trust in capitalism. Americans put up with a lot when they think they have a shot at the prize, but that sentiment is fading in this winner-take-all economy.
The agency subsequently reported that supermarkets using controllers from two other companies had also been targeted in the attack, but authorities have not indicated who could have been behind the incidents.
Oil prices posted their sharpest drop in three months Monday after a series of headlines about Iran gave investors hope that the Trump administration would find a way to end the conflict without further escalation.
The report provides information about labor demand, hiring, and employee turnover. Additional employment indicators arrive later in the week, including private-sector hiring figures and weekly unemployment claims.
According to SoSoValue data, spot bitcoin ETFs saw $643.3 million in net outflows on Friday, marking their largest single-day outflow since June 25. Spot Ethereum Ethereum ETH +1.79% ETFs saw $155.9 million in net outflows on Friday, their largest since Oct. 7.
In an alert published on Saturday, the FBI said the attack was carried out by North Korean hackers it refers to as "TraderTraitor," confirming the attribution blockchain analytics firms TRM Labs and Chainalysis made on Friday.
Coinbase captured 26.7% of weekly decentralized exchange volume across 18 issuers, trailing Robinhood by a sliver.
Despite two consecutive October losses, analysts cautioned against writing off Uptober entirely. Julio Moreno, head of research at CryptoQuant, said October has generally performed better during Bitcoin bull markets and worse during bear markets, making the broader market cycle an important factor when comparing…
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation's (DTCC) new tokenization service validates rather than threatens Securitize's business model, according to StoneX analysts, who argue that the two platforms serve different markets.
Open-weight AI models now trail the best closed models by only about four months on average, and a growing number of them run on hardware you probably already own.
The SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen hand daily telescope operations to AI agents that take instructions in plain English.
The FBI said the hackers were converting stolen assets "primarily into Ethereum" and expects the funds to be further laundered through DeFi protocols and instant swap services. The agency also published a list of 608 Ethereum addresses, 19 bitcoin addresses and one Solana address, but no Tron addresses, that it said…
These data centre companies, known as neocloud firms, run large warehouses packed with expensive computers, which they lease to major AI developers like Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta. They're now the subject of one of Silicon Valley's most heated debates.
The biggest names in banking and retail are starting to fight the tech titans, and one another, over a new kind of customer: the AI personal agent.
The U.S. FBI confirmed that North Korea’s TraderTraitor hacking group was behind last week’s theft of over $6 billion from Binance, asking the crypto community to block transactions from hundreds of addresses that at one point held funds from the hack.
The Hubble Space Telescope will come crashing to Earth sometime in the 2030s without a boost.
The November issue of IEEE Spectrum is here!
Cities are canceling Flock contracts, but the company won’t take them down and sometimes is reinstalling them.
Game Off is the perfect opportunity to check it out. Whether you spend November shifting pixels, shifting bits, shifting timelines, or shifting unfinished tasks into the final 24 hours, you’ll be part of a global community making games together.
Code strings in HomeView’s software suggest Apple could launch a Secure Video feature soon.
Amazon has disabled Alexa voice controls for the AUX input on several older Echo speakers. An Amazon email shared by a customer and reported by Ars Technica says that commands such as "Alexa, play from line in" and "Alexa, set AUX input" have stopped working.
Nearly 20 years after it was canceled, the camera-based Portal prequel F-Stop is no longer lost media.
Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) made a stunning last-minute endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers on Sunday, two days before Michigan's closely watched Senate election.
Russia’s influence has surged among young people across Africa in recent years, leaping over former colonial power France while still trailing China, a survey of African youths has found. According to the African Youth Survey commissioned by the South Africa-based Ichikowitz Family Foundation, 54 per cent.
A Chinese photographer is facing fierce public backlash for charging middle-aged women inflated fees while allegedly subjecting them to sexually suggestive remarks during photo shoots. Known online as “Duan Gongzi,” 48-year-old army…
The operations at Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport have seen significant disruption following attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi movement. Citing data from aviation analytics firm Cirium, approximately 94% of flights scheduled to depart the airport were canceled from October 10 through October 27.
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $643.2 million on Friday, ’s ETF tracker, their biggest single-day outflow of October. It was the funds’ first full session since attackers began draining roughly $6.4 billion from Binance at 4:05 p.m.
Bitcoin was near $77,000 on October 31 after the selloff around the Binance breach. If you’re now thinking about assessing a recovery, the first thing to look at is whether demand returns without another expansion in outstanding derivatives positions.
Binance recorded about $3.64 billion in net outflows in the first nine and a half hours after it began restoring withdrawals on Sunday, following Thursday's $6.3 billion hack, the exchange said.
Michael Saylor expects the crypto industry to strengthen security after Binance’s $6.3 billion hack.
Bitcoin price recovery put $78,000 back in focus on November 1 as the market steadied after last week’s sell-off.
OpenAI has slashed its target capital raise and valuation amid the steep AI-related stock selloff of the past few weeks, the FT reported late Friday evening.
Instead of going to court, the whole incident turned into the best PR campaign for AI companies showcasing how powerful their models are. Anthropic's November 2025 study asked what learning to cheat does to a model overall.
Anthropic’s IPO is still weeks away, but traders are already betting on it with borrowed money.
In the early days of bitcoin BTC $77,726.02, way back in 2009, individuals could mine the cryptocurrency using ordinary home computers, earning rewards for helping process transactions on the proof-of-work network.
The seemingly endless gusher of capital that’s been showered on Silicon Valley during the AI boom may be coming to an end soon as Wall Street pushes back on massive spending plans.
How a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cisco, and the world's most valuable company to boot.
A federal judge on Saturday threw out President Trump's lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over the paper's reporting on Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein,.
Once Super Heavy separates, Starship will go on, powered by three regular Raptor engines and three Raptor Vacuum engines designed to operate in space. The rocket's immense power has to do more than fight gravity to lift heavy payloads.
A multi-agent harness for programming problems, written as a Memdoor workflow. It is the method of GVS5H (Lee, 2026: five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard).
With a net worth of $222 billion, Mark Zuckerberg is one of the richest people in the world and the owner of a massive real-estate portfolio that spans the entire U.S.
The network is analyzing model demand to advise members on which models are in higher demand right now. Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox.
As part of the short Pikmin Day Direct, Shigeru Miyamoto shared new info about Pikmin 4 for the Switch 2, as well as an update for the mobile app Pikmin Bloom, and announced the Hello! Players will be able to use the Switch 2’s built-in microphone to issue voice commands to Oatchi, the space dog.
France has approved a proposed tax that aims to tax the amount of internet data per gigabyte sent to French users in the country, with major companies like Google, Netflix, TikTok, and Meta now in the crosshairs.
Homeowners were nearly twice as likely as renters to have an electric vehicle in 2025, new Census data show, revealing a striking divide in America's shift to electric cars.
Ride-hailing giant Uber tested a way to keep its corporate cash earning yield around the clock while still having it available for payments, using tokenized funds and bank deposits on the Canton Network.
As corporate earnings soar and U.S. GDP balloons, the American workforce isn’t feeling the same boom.
California voters will decide on Proposition 40 soon, but looming over the controversial billionaire wealth tax proposal is another state ballot measure from nearly 50 years ago.
“In Minnesota, the USPS offices are inside mosques,” she wrote. What are The Atlantic Technology doing America.” She reshared a 28-minute-long video of a man circling a brick building in Plymouth, Minnesota, and accosting postal workers inside.
The Justice Department is investigating the Arizona voter registration efforts of three Democratic-aligned groups after an "undercover" video purported to show volunteers willing to register non-citizens.
Moving west: Polls close in Ohio at 7:30pm and Texas at 8pm ET, but Texas counts faster. The bottom line: Don't stay up for the Senate results in either Maine or Alaska.
It’s why Longoria says receiving the prize, alongside Bill McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, is much bigger than the money. “Receiving that support was incredibly meaningful, not because of the scale of the gift, but because it represented trust and responsibility,” Longoria said, adding that she’s been “more…
The governments of Washington D.C. and Virginia asked a federal court to block construction of President Trump's planned " triumphal arch," claiming it's unlawfully tall and would snarl traffic for years.
The Canadian dollar has extended its monthly gains, driven by the rise in oil prices, which has heightened concerns about inflation. That the loonie reached a six-week high of C$1.3955 per U.S. dollar, marking a 2% increase for the month.
Heavy is the head that wears the crown, and contrary to popular belief, Beijing doesn’t want the yuan to dethrone the dollar as the world’s dominant currency, according to a top China scholar.
"Based on the evidence available to date, The Block has found no indication that these incidents resulted in the unauthorized access of investigation content (such as graphs, notes, or cases), transaction or query results, passwords in clear text, MFA secrets, or user session tokens," Chainalysis wrote.
Magnus Ahmad, who had arrived in London and was enjoying a night out with old friends, handed his unlocked iPhone to a stranger outside a London bar, thinking the man was entering his phone number.
Crypto investors are committing more tokens to securing blockchains even as rewards fall, with improving access helping drive demand while the economics of staking face a broader test.
Binance says it has replenished 90% of the cryptocurrency stolen in Thursday’s $6.3 billion hack and remains on track to reopen withdrawals Sunday, Nov. 1.
Hackers who took over a dozen DeFi websites late Friday and used them to empty visitors' crypto wallets targeted domains registered through the same company, Name.com, according to public registry records reviewed by The Block.
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude models, is heading to the public markets. The company submitted its Form S-1 registration statement to the SEC on October 26, 2026.
"CoinDesk believe Binance has more than enough liquidity to cover the hole," they wrote. That doesn't mean the fallout will be painless.
Intel shares plunged nearly 30% to $65.76 on Friday after the chipmaker issued a fourth-quarter forecast that fell well short of Wall Street expectations, overshadowing an otherwise strong earnings report.
While science fiction lore tells us that humans will meet extraterrestrial life in the form of little green men, the detail that should raise hairs this Halloween is this: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence took a major leap forward with AI, and it increasingly focuses on AI agents built by humans listening for AI agents built by aliens.
Dylan Anderson was a software engineer at, in his words, "some random place in Minnesota." Then a friend-of-a-friend connection changed everything. He did a work trial, moved to San Francisco, and became the first engineer at Adam (W25), a company building AI agents for CAD software.
He is built on the NVIDIA Nemotron Voice Agent with NVIDIA Nemotron ASR, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, Magpie TTS Zeroshot and Audio2Face-3D, and he runs on a single workstation. I wanted the kids visiting my house at Halloween to interact in a fun and unique way.
It’s a refinement of an already brilliant wearable, with double the RAM and storage, plus an upgraded Qualcomm Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 processor that makes this edition 20 percent faster than its predecessor.
From the rapidly rising and falling values of Bitcoin to high-profile heists like the hacking of Binance, the world of cryptocurrencies is often in the headlines.
Binance’s investigation into the record $6.3 billion hack has uncovered additional security breaches beyond an initially suspected compromised employee laptop, co-CEO Richard Teng said Friday, adding details of the attack and setting a Sunday target to restore withdrawals.
Binance says the attacker reportedly gained access through a compromised employee laptop, and about $3 billion has been frozen onchain.
David Mount has started four companies, served as CTO, watched funding dry up, and built a passion project about nuclear energy called Atomic Ambitions. Two weeks later, a founder from 10x Science reached out — someone who had taken the time to experience Atomic Ambitions.
He stepped onto the low stage at a Los Angeles event space with zero fanfare, said hi, and queued up a video showing the first touchscreen Mac. Ternus, who at 51 is on the younger side of Apple’s top management, has been CEO for less than two months.
The effective corporate income tax rate is now the lowest it’s been in decades, and a tapering revenue source for the U.S. government is raising concerns among some policy experts.
I checked my phone into a pouch at the door of 100 Sutton St. in Greenpoint on Thursday night, along with about 300 other people, five days before the midterms.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday he expects to conclude negotiations with the European Union in June to make Canada the bloc’s first “associate member,” as both sides forge an unprecedented alliance to protect their sovereignty in a changing world order.
Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) is endorsing a trio of insurgent Democratic candidates who are challenging his fellow California House Democrats, Axios has learned.
When alleged North Korean hackers stole $6.3 billion from Binance, some of crypto’s biggest companies acted within hours to stop nearly half the money from vanishing forever.
The largest cryptocurrency slumped to an overnight low of $76,400 before recovering some of the decline. Around $3 billion of the proceeds have been frozen, with withdrawals currently paused on the exchange.
Following the $6.3 billion hack of the world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, calls are growing for legislation and for firms like Binance to move onshore.
The Binance wallets emptied in Thursday’s hack are the same wallets the exchange lists as proof that customers’ crypto is fully backed, according to a CoinDesk review of Binance’s own reserve data.
Tyler Evans breaks down Bitcoin's post-bear setup: Fed policy, bond yields, surging ETF accumulation, and why U.S. midterms are pivotal heading into 2027.
Mistral Large 4 (aka Le Chonk) is a multimodal, multilingual, Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Mistral. It has about 1T total, 49B active parameter, and a context window of 1M tokens.
Turning a simulation idea into a working application means assembling assets, connecting physics and rendering, and checking that the scene behaves as intended.
Google’s Chrome browser can now pull personal details from your Gmail inbox to fill out online forms for you, the company said in its announcement on Wednesday.
The company had reported lower-than-expected profit and a slowdown in its advertising business while it maintained big spending on AI. Net profit slid 25% from a year earlier to $26.2bn in the July-to-September period, or $2.12 a share, well short of expectations by analysts surveyed by FactSet.
Stanford researcher Chuyue Sun and her fellow computer scientists developed an AI tool that completed an engineering project in less than half a day for under $500, compared to the five months it took three highly skilled experts to do the same work manually.
Prediction market giant Polymarket said Thursday that it had paused trading after discovering a third-party exploit that led to some users losing funds.
Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy told investors Thursday not to worry about bots invading its online store and rendering it useless.
A cyclone that powered up over unusually warm ocean waters hit part of India’s coastline that’s dense with billions of dollars of investment in data centers, underscoring the threats to infrastructure as extreme weather becomes more frequent.
This is the second time in recent months that Polymarket users have lost funds due to a third-party breach. In June, Polymarket reported that another third-party vendor had been breached, affecting the company's front-end.
Hyperliquid’s native token HYPE surged about 20% Thursday after New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announced plans for US perpetual futures with Trade[XYZ], whose investors include billionaire Wall Street investor Stanley Druckenmiller.
Prediction exchange Kalshi’s Senate markets showed different Democratic odds on Oct. 28, but buying a four-contract hedge at the quoted prices cost $3.02 before fees for a $3 gross payout only if the control and seat-count outcomes aligned.
Amazon's cloud-computing unit reported more rapid third-quarter growth than analysts had projected.
Ofcom has set out its recommendations for the most effective ways to identify which of the UK's millions of social media users are aged over 16.
U.S. officials have told several Middle East countries and regional allies to be prepared for potential renewed military action against Iran after next week’s midterm elections in the United States — as well as the possibility that Iran will attempt to retaliate against them, according to two diplomats briefed on the matter.
For anyone who isn’t angling for a job in the Trump administration, “Who won the 2020 presidential election?” should be an easy question.
Why it matters: Election challenges aren't unusual, but as the Trump administration continues to make false claims about widespread voter fraud, officials are juggling fights over voter lists, mail-ballot rules and election certification challenges.
Alaska's tight Senate race is facing a new controversy over two candidates named Dan Sullivan appearing on the ballot — a twist that's drawn attention from President Trump.
Singapore police say tampered Ledgers started showing up there on September 10.
Three maritime drones struck a container ship sailing in the Black Sea off the coast of Bulgaria on Wednesday, the country’s defense minister said, the latest in a string of such incidents on NATO’s eastern flank.
Polygon and Solana have competed for years for developers, users and transaction volumes.
“Crypto firms should be under no illusion: being based overseas does not put them beyond the reach of UK law,” said Steve Smart, the FCA's executive director of enforcement and market oversight. The agreement covers promotions through HTX's website, mobile applications and social media.
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller chose cryptocurrency for the subject of his first post on the social media platform X, revealing an investment in Trade[XYZ], a trading platform that partners with the New York Stock Exchange's parent company to bring Hyperliquid-based derivatives to the U.S.
Prediction platform Polymarket rolled out five-minute crypto up-or-down betting contracts on its regulated U.S. platform.
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by volume, was exploited for more than $5 billion on Thursday in what would be the largest ever crypto attack.
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7 newsrooms covered the same event: Inside the largest crypto hack on record: How attackers breached Binance for $6.3 billion. Separately, Donald Trump ran as the week's persistent background thread.
Watch nextA high-signal story fewer sources ran with: The statement went on to say that users would be made whole, but that platform trading had been halted (CoinDesk).